More news from the desk of Captain
Zap, the first person on the planet to be convicted of computer
crime...

Well, we do it! They should be able to
doit! In fact the NIPC issued a warning about the Tribal Attack code
inDecember! And so did Cisco offer information concerning this problem.

Sowhat's
the excuse? Too much eggnog at Christmas? These "E-Slumlords"
ofthe net keep on taking in the money
and still have not maintained theirreal-estate to a proper manner that
should be addressed each and everyday! Maybe it is time that the "building
inspectors" come in and shutthem
down and demolish the "buildings", clear the lot and
then re-build!Did they forget that the whole world is able to get to them from a
fewkeystrokes? Or did they forget that they are not the gods that theythink that they are and are just mere mortals like the rest of us?
Whilethe web sites themselves were not affected in general, the idea thatthis can happen because these greedy Internet companies have not doneanything but squander their money on fancy graphics, fluff content
andother window dressings, they forgot about the loading dock and thenumber of "trucks" that were lining up to off-load!

Now in all of this fray, we have the numerous
Security companies thathad
their phones ringing off the hook about all of the paranoia going
onwith web sites.
Just what are some of these web sites thinking. If yoursite is a target, and you have done
nothing to protect yourself, thenyou
are in for a world of hurt, and all of the phone calls to thealleged Big 6,5,4 or whatever Internet
Security Guru's they are thisweek
all lining up with fancy proposals, blue suits and vast auditprograms to examine the "inner
workings" of the "scared to death"clients and their web sites, are not
going to help! In simple terms soyou can understand it! It's gonna cost
you money kids!

And of course we have the wonderful Packet
Storm that has gone ahead andgave
Mixtor (read his
explanation!)a 10K
prize for his little programs. Gee,
on onehand the kid
makes a program that can bring about havoc, and on theother hand, he makes one that stops
the same crap he started! Cansomeone
please explain the logic here in this soap opera? Well if thatdoes not take the cake!!!! The owners
of Packet Storm are none otherthan
Kroll-O'Gara
and should have their hands slapped for such anaction. While there are a number of sites out there that releaseexploits and should continue so, the need to understand such exploits
is ...We will stay the course we are on and we have the ideas that such
thingsshould be released in general to just show what can happen. And aglowing example this was!

And we would like to thank Bob Sulivan
of MSNBC for removing his (our)story
as being allegedly copied by him and his organization from anunnamed source and our last communiqué'.
It seems that someone calledMr. Sullivan and stated that hey had
received an 18 page letter statingthat the Internet was owned by all,
not a few greedy companies withtheir massive control exercised upon
the masses. Well the story was asomewhat direct copy of ours and caused
a bit of major grief around thisoffice for all of the staff. MSNBC
then changed the story after talkingto his unnamed source. So, the source
that is on this list, please feelfree to contact us before you think
of releasing this information oropinion! And in general, as always
your opinions count, so don't be shy!